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Site Mental Health Specialist Services – IDD- Highbury Hospital
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking two enthusiastic Assistant Psychologists to join the Clinical Psychology team working with people with intellectual disabilities.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare provides integrated healthcare services, including mental health, learning disability and physical health services, employing over 8800 staff over a large number of sites. The Clinical Psychology Service to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities employs staff across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. They provide a highly specialist, research-informed and research-active service.
These posts will support clinical psychologists to screen and assess referrals, complete assessments and interventions with a range of clients, staff and carers in the community. It requires liaison with formal and informal carers and working with multi-disciplinary colleagues. There may also be opportunities to contribute to audit or service evaluation.
You must have already obtained a UK university honours degree in psychology graded at 2:1 or 1st or an equivalent qualification conferring the BPS approved graduate basis for Chartered Membership.
For informal discussion, contact Dr. Nadine Taylor, consultant clinical psychologist, on 07350372041.
We reserve the right to close this post early in the event that a large number of applications are received.
Interviews will take place in March 2025.
Main duties of the job
1. To support and carry out a range of psychometric and other assessments with people who have an intellectual or developmental disability (e.g. autism). These may include interviews, questionnaires, and intellectual and executive skills assessments.
2. To support and carry out defined therapeutic interventions with people with intellectual disabilities.
3. To support interventions with staff teams, such as consultancy, training, identifying resources, multi-disciplinary working, signposting staff to appropriate services and service promotion.
4. To support data collection and analysis, for both clinical and service evaluation, as required. This may include collecting and reviewing a variety of data such as psychometric scores, interview data, historical information, literature searches. It may also involve data analysis and report writing under supervision.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for full details on the requirements for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Psychology honours degree 2:1 or higher, meeting the requirements for graduate basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society.
Training
Values and behaviours
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork.
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.
Experience
* Clinically relevant postgraduate work experience.
* Experience of working with people with intellectual disabilities, mental health, and/or challenging behaviour.
* Experience of NHS clinical psychology services.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of psychological assessment and intervention.
* Experience of using standardised assessments.
* Experience of working in applied psychological models, e.g. CBT, CFT, DBT.
Skills
* Clear communication skills, both oral and written. Dealing with barriers to communication.
* Numeracy, data collection and analysis skills.
* Ability to reflect on practice, accept and utilise personal supervision.
* Word processing and other IT skills.
* Understanding of ethical issues in clinical practice.
Contractual
* Able to travel across the Trust’s geographical area. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post. However, reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Additional Information
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants, so we advise you to submit your application early to prevent disappointment.
* We will be requesting references by email. Please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
* The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
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* For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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